The Plan: Provide an Apparatus that Introduces Indie Artists’ Music to Listeners looking for new independent music — Immitter.com presented their plan for a new internet startup at the 2010 DEMO Conference in Los Angeles, CA this past weekend. Immitters’ specialty is music; its platform is the Internet. Immitter proclaims itself as the Internet Music Transmitter. […]
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Indie Flashback – Dinosaur Jr.
For this week’s Indie Flashback, we will go back to the mid-to-late 80’s. The scene is Amherst, Massachusetts, famous for being a college town but about to get a very influential band in Dinosaur Jr. Dinosaur Jr. – Freak Scene Dinosaur Jr wanted nothing to do with making a scene or indie credibility, […]
Portland, Oregon based indie-folk rockers Blitzen Trapper have announced a release date for their upcoming album on Sub-Pop Records. The new album will be titled Destroyer Of The Void and is set to be released on June 8. 2010. As a teaser, they have also made available the single ‘Heaven & Earth’ for free […]
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SXSW 2010 performance by The Soft Pack
You may have noticed that we at Indie Band Guru are big fans of The Soft Pack. They played a bunch of shows at SXSW 2010 and killed it as usual. Here is some video of one of there shows at Trailer Space. It always amazes me the places that they find for bands to […]
So, if you didn’t know already, Indie Band Guru has been around for a while helping market independent bands, both online and through diverse guerilla marketing strategies designed to capture the attention of fans in different ways. We had been very, very selective in the bands that we have worked with limiting it to 1 […]
authored by Marc Montfleury (aka Eloh) of Indie Band Guru It’s 9:30 pm on a rainy Saturday night. You have spent the last two to three weeks sending out sending out bulk emails, passing out flyers, texting everyone in your circle. Your Facebook, your Myspace and your Reverbnation pages are stock full of event invitations […]
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Story behind a bands name? The Soft Pack
I heard a strange, but true story about the origin of the band, The Soft Pack’s name today. The Los Angeles (via-San Diego) indie mope-punk rockers were called The Muslims back when they got started in 2008. Maybe not the smartest choice. How far could a group calling itself the Muslims get in today’s […]
Choose your tourmates wisely! I am not sure if indie starlets Band of Horses have done this on their decision to due a 3 week series of dates with grunge rock pioneers Pearl Jam. The only similarity I see in these two bands is that they are both from Seattle. Granted opening for Pearl Jam will expose […]